Year 3 Newsletter
Writing
This term in our English lessons we have been inspired by a picture book called "Flood". It is a book with beautiful illustrations that shows the story of a family having to leave their home to escape from a looming storm that threatens to flood their beloved house.
The children have thoroughly enjoyed getting into the role of the family members each lesson. As part of our writing, we have used our fantastic immersion room to experience what it was like to leave all our belongings behind and be trapped within a storm. We saw thunder, lightening and torrential rain; we heard the roar and boom of the storm; we felt the wind blowing from the fans and even felt the rain spray onto us when the storm hit!
The children have worked especially hard to improve their writing with skills such as:
- 'Show not tell' to portray a characters thoughts and feelings
- personification to describe the storm and the house
- repetition to create drama and intensity
- similes and metaphors to emphasise the severity of the storm
Well done year 3!
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